Software Developer political contributions from California

Software Developer and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SOFTWARE DEVELOPER and donor state CA produce $5,444,167, 13,512 contributions, and 432 donors. The occupation hub is $16,793,605, 92,777 contributions, and 2,757 donors. Dollar share (32.4%) and contribution share (14.6%) diverge by more than ten points. California Software Developer-coded receipts are not a miniature of the national mix. California Software Developer dollars outrun the contribution share on this join.

Software Developer is a developer title as typed, not an engineer recode. Nearby strings — SOFTWARE ENGINEER, PROGRAMMER, ENGINEER, and DEVELOPER — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $5,444,167 or $16,793,605. Employer names that would place people at named labs or product companies are not in these six numbers.

Four hundred thirty-two California donors produced 13,512 contributions, about 31.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 33.7 rows per donor nationally (92,777 contributions from 2,757 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this California cell are about $12,602, versus about $6,091 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

Software Developer as a national occupation grouping

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify employment at a named software company. The national grouping is 2,757 donors, 92,777 contributions, and $16,793,605.

92,777 contributions from 2,757 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. California’s 13,512 contributions from 432 donors is the CA-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California.

California on the state side

Four hundred thirty-two California donors produced 13,512 contributions totaling $5,444,167. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California professional license, and not a limit to California candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only SOFTWARE DEVELOPER. Subtract $5,444,167 from $16,793,605 and $11,349,438 remains coded Software Developer in every other state combined (79,265 contributions, 2,325 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

What the Software Developer–California join is not

This page does not measure software developer output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Software Developer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a GitHub census, not a FAANG headcount, and not a California CS-degree extract.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state CA is not recipient geography.

Three numbers, two fields, one Software Developer filter

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $5,444,167, 13,512 contributions, and 432 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the Software Developer national total, drops a key.

Software Developer donations holds the $16,793,605 national occupation total. California campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Nearby occupation strings remain separate keys.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. Employer names that would place people at named labs or product companies are not in these six numbers.

Related tables

Software Developer donations holds the $16,793,605 national occupation total. California campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields.

Questions

How much have Software Developer donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Software Developer and state California total $5,444,167, from 13,512 contributions and 432 donors. Nationwide, Software Developer-coded receipts are $16,793,605 from 92,777 contributions and 2,757 donors. California is 32.4% of those dollars.

Is Software Developer the same as Software Engineer?

No. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER and SOFTWARE ENGINEER are different occupation strings. This California join uses only SOFTWARE DEVELOPER. Mixing the two would invent a combined coding-occupations total that is not a packet fact. This join reports 432 California donors and $5,444,167 in itemized receipts.

What share of Software Developer FEC money is from California?

32.4% of the $16,793,605 occupation total is in this California join ($5,444,167). California also accounts for 14.6% of contributions (13,512 of 92,777) and 15.7% of donors (432 of 2,757). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $5,444,167 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.